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Re: future developments: shared libraries and dynamic plugins

 

Le 04/11/2015 17:43, jp charras a écrit :
> Le 04/11/2015 17:15, Mark Roszko a écrit :
>> I eagerly await a plugin framework. I want play around with overhauling the
>> netlisting/bom into plugins rather than XSLT and the C++ combo right now.
>> I originally wanted to create a way more advanced XSLT system complete
>> with configurable
>> displayed user options parsed from a definition XML but writing C++
>> plugins makes it so much easier and allows more complex logic...sanely
>> instead of accidentally summong Cthulhu trying to do the same in XSLT
>> :D
>>
> 
> For BOM generation, please also consider python scripts, like the
> footprint generators/footprint wizard.
> 
> XSLT was used when the BOM generation from our generic netlist replaced
> the internal generator, but now (and since a long time) BOM from python
> scripts are (from my point of view) more easy to use, and more powerful.
> 
> I am now using only python scripts for BOM generation.
> 

I forgot:
see <kicad src>/scripts/bom-in-python


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Jean-Pierre CHARRAS


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